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At the Virigina Military Institute, Dixie has been banned since the mid-1970s, when black cadets protested what had been the corps' favorite song (second only to the the school fight song, The Spirit of V.M.I.). The solution, which as been amusing cadets and alumni to this day, has been to replace Dixie with The Bonnie Blue Flag, a song equally associated with the late confederacy for which VMI fought.

Heh...someone should read 'em the words to "The Bonnie Blue Flag"...

THE BONNIE BLUE FLAG
Lyrics by Harry Macarthy (d. 1874)

We are a band of brothers
And native to the soil,
Fighting for the property
We gained by honest toil;
And when our rights were threatened,
The cry rose near and far--
"Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag
That bears a single star!"

CHORUS: Hurrah! Hurrah!
For Southern rights hurrah!
Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag
That bears a single star.

Another tale of "be careful what you wish for" for the politically correct:

Having solved all of the problems of crime, economics, education, and traffic accidents (sarcasm off), the government of my state has from time to time seen fit to spend its valuable time (and our tax dollars) to purge itself of "offensive" names of places and species. The latest purge involved the term "squaw", so we got rid of the squawfish, Squaw Mountain, etc. Years ago, the word to be eliminated (rightfully so) was "nigger". The locals had become attached to the name, "Lost Nigger Lake", having used it since the 1800's when the lake was named in honor of an African-American pioneer, his name now lost to antiquity, who had lost his way in the wilderness, and miraculously and heroically survived on the shores of said lake. They resisted the name change as long as they could, but finally relented under unimaginable pressure. You can now find, on any map of our area, "Lost Coon Lake".